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William K. Kelley served as Deputy Counsel to United States President
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. He worked as a deputy to White House Counsel
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prior to her departure from the White House, and Counsel Fred Fielding, who succeeded Miers. Kelley is a professor at the
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who took a leave of absence to work at the White House. He returned to Notre Dame in the 2007–2008 academic year. He earned his B.A. from Marquette University in 1984 and his J.D. from Harvard in 1987. He is a member of
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. Admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1990, Professor Kelley clerked for
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on the
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Circuit in Washington, D.C. (1987–88), as well as for Chief Justice
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and Associate Justice
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(1988–89). Kelley worked with the Office of the Special Counsel when Kenneth Starr was investigating the Whitewater / Monica Lewinsky incidents, writing the brief for the case. During the
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, Kelley was a member of the so-called Cabal, a group of former law clerks to conservative Supreme Court justices. The clerks argued the Supreme Court justices would want to grant
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to hear the controversy that would become, ''
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''.


United States Attorneys

Kelley was one of several Bush administration White House staff members that participated in approving the dismissal of eight
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in 2006. Questions about the criteria for the dismissals led to Congressional hearings. On March 21, 2007, the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, approved issuing subpoenas to Kelley, along with four other senior White house officials, to testify about the dismissals.Associated Press.
Text of motion approving subpoenas of White House officials
''Detroit News'' Thursday, March 22, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2007.


See also

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List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Chief Justice) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Th ...
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List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Mos ...


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Discussion on Constitutional separation of powers between Kelley and Harvard's Noah Feldman and Jack Goldsmith
in the ''
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